PhD, Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986

BS, Finance, Louisiana State University, 1980

LSU, Economics, Assistant Professor, 1986 to 1990

Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 2010

Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 2000

Swift Undergraduate Teaching Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 1995

• Monetary Economics
• Time Series Econometrics
• Macroeconomics

• Monetary Economics
• Time Series Econometrics
• Macroeconomics

• Chadi S. Abdallah and William D. Lastrapes. 2012. Home Equity Lending and Retail Spending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Texas. American Economic Journal -- Macroeconomics, 4(4). 
• William D. Lastrapes. December 2006. Inflation and the Distribution of Relative Prices: The Role of Productivity and Money Supply Shocks. Journal Of Money, Credit And Banking, (38):2159-98. 
• William D. Lastrapes and W. Douglas McMillin. Oct. 2004. Cross-Country Variation in the Liquidity Effect: The Role of Finanical Markets. The Economic Journal, (114):890-915. 
• William D. Lastrapes. Nov. 1998. The Dynamic Effects of Money: Combining Short-run and Long-run Identifying Restrictions Using Bayesian Techniques. Review Of Economics And Statistics, (80):588-00. 
• William D. Lastrapes and George Selgin. December 1997. The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction. Journal Of Economic History, (57):859-78. 
• Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes. 1993.Forecasting Stock Return Variance: Toward an Understanding of Stochastic Implied Volatilities. Review Of Financial Studies, (6):293-326. 
• William D. Lastrapes. 1992. Sources of Fluctuations in Real and Nominal Exchange Rates. Review Of Economics And Statistics, (74):530-39. 
• Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes. April 1990.Persistence-in-Variance, Structural Change and the GARCH Model.Journal Of Business And Economic Statistics, (8):225-34. 
• Christopher G. Lamoureux and William D. Lastrapes. March 1990.Heteroskedasticity in Stock Return Data: Volume Versus GARCH Effects. Journal Of Finance, (45):221-29. 
• William D. Lastrapes. February 1989. Exchange Rate Volatility and U.S. Monetary Policy: An ARCH Application. Journal Of Money, Credit And Banking, (21):66-77.

Editor, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014 - present

Associate Editor, Journal of Economics and Business, 2000 - present